Knockdown display-rack.



O. G. ZIEGLER.

KNOCKDOWN DISPLAY RACK."

APPLlCATION FILED JAN.2I. 1919.

Patented Apr. 22,1919.

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OSCAR G. ZIJEGJLER, 0F HALETHORPE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO A.

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0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A. FIRE/I.

mirocanown Dismay-nears specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, rare.

Application filed January 21, 1919. Serial No 272,259.

Z '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that T, OscAn G. ZTEGLER,residing at Halethorpe, in the county of Baltimore, and State ofMaryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in KnockdownDisplay-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in knock-down display racks.

The objects of the invention are to pro vide an improved construction ofdisplay rack that may be readily assembled or taken apart; that may beconstructed of heavy card-board but when set up be of suiiicientrigidity to hold an article of considerable weight,such as an automobiletire; which will display the article in an upright position, and provideample surface for the display of advertising matter and which when takenapart may be packed in a fiat condition and shipped if desired, in acrate with a single tire.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1, shows the improved device in perspective.

' Fig. 2, illustrates the same in side view.

Fig. 3, shows the assembled rack in top plan, and

Fig. 4 illustrates, in perspective, the separated parts of the rack inrelative positions one with respect to another for assembly to show howthe several slotted edges of the parts interlock one with the other.

Referring to the drawing, the numerals 5 and 6 designate two mainsupports each having a rear upright portion 7, and a forwardly-extendingbase portion 8, at its lower and. The upright portion of each mainsupport has a front edge 9, and the forwardly-extending base of each ofsaid main supports is provided in its upper edge with a slot 10,immediately in front of said front edge, whereby saidfront edge 9, andthe slot 10, both project down below the uppermost edge 11, of saidextending base portion, as clearly seen in Fig. 4, of the drawing.

At the rear, each main support is provided with a slot.12, which extendsforwardly from the rear edge 13 and toward the front edge 9, .and bypreterence, these slots 12, are inclined downwardly so that theirforward ends are lower than their rear ends, for a purpose which willpresently be explained.

1 The forwardly-extending base portion of each mam support also has aslot 14, extending upwardly from the bottom or base edge 15 which latterslot is referably parallel with the slot 10, and a so with the frontedge 9, of the upright portion.

The two mainsupports are to be sustained 1n an upright position on thebase edges 15, but spaced with respect to each other, and the means foreffecting this spacing will now besexplained.

A. front bar 16, has two spaced apart notches 17, extending downwardlyfrom its upper edge 18, and the unnotched space 20, between the lowerends of these notches and the bottom edge 21 of the bar is equal indepth to the depth of the slots 14-, in the base portion of the mainsupports, so that theznotches 17, and the slots 14, may be brought intoregister until the inner ends of the two abut. whereupon the bottom edge21, of the front bar 16, and the bottom or base edge 15, of the mainsupports will become flush, as shown in Fig. 2, of the drawing. Theengagement, therefore of the downwardly-extending notches of the frontplate 16, with the upwardly-extending slots 14, of the main supports notonly looks the supports to the bar but also edects a spaced-apart frontlocking of the two supports with respect to each other so that neitherlongitudinal nor lateral movement can take place between thelocked-together parts.

At the rear the two main supports are held in a spaced-apart lockedcondition by a rear spacer bar 22, which latter also has spaced apartnotches 23, which extend rear-' wardly from its forward edge 24. Thesenotches 23 are of such depth that when they are brought into registerand straddled with the slots 12, in the upright portions 7 of the mainsupports, the rear edge 25, of the rear spacer, bar will be tlush withthe rear edge 13, of the main supports, and the front edge 24, of saidrear spacer bar Wlll be flushwith the front edge 9, of said mainsupports. When this spacer bar 22, is eI 1-, gaged with the two s acedmain supports it will have an incline posltlon' with respect to thelatter as shown 1n lF'i 2, and danger of accidental rearward dispacement of said rear bar is avoided.

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A partition plate 26, is provided between bottom edge. This partitionplate has potil sition directly in front of the edges 9, of theuprights" 5 and 6, and the notches in the lower or bottom edge straddlethe slots 10, in the projecting portions 8, of the two main supports andthereby provide an intermediate cross-wise locking of the two mainsupports in addition to retaining the partition in place. T he rear sideof the partition plate seatsagainst the edges 9, at the front of theuprights of the main supports, and is therefore braced so as towithstand pressure that may be applied to its front side.

lln outline the partition plate may vary,

but in the present instance I have made its upper portion of a circularoutline because if have designed the form shown particu-- larly as arack for sustaining and displaying automobile tires. For this samereason ll provide the upper edge of each extended base portion 8, with aconcavity 29, which latter is located between the front spacer plate 16,and the partition, plate 26, so that 4 being straddled whereby to holdthe sup ports in spaced relation; detachable means the circumferentialsurface of a circular tire may seat in the two spaced-apart concavitieswhile the upper portion of the tire may incline slightly and restagainst the partition plate", as shown by broken 1 lines in Fig. 2,ofthe drawing.

From the foregoing explanations it will be seen that the rack'is formedfrom-a series of flat plates, thick card-board bein the preferredmaterial, which are notche and slotted so as to fit one into anotherwhereby to lock the several plates together and that the same may bereadily assembled or taken apart. It will also be seen that when theplates. are separated they may readily be laid one upon another andplaced in a crate with a single sample tire and shipped to a place wherethe tire is to be displayed.

- In practice, the central circular portion of the partition plate 26,adords ample space for advertising matter as does also the front flatface of the front plate 16. What ll claim is,- v 1. ln a displayrack thecombinationwith two separate upright supports, of a detachable front barconnecting said supports at the lower front portion of the latter and Iholdin the same spaced apart; a separate rear p ate detachablyconnectingthe upper amar/e7 portion of said supports at the rear and adetachable upright partition plate sustained by the supports between thelower front bar and the upper rear plate.

2. In a display rack the combination with twoseparable upright supportseach having a forward extension at its lower front side,

of a detachable spacer bar extending between and connecting the forwardexten-- sions of said supports to lock the same spaced relation; ablerear plate in a plane above the forward extensions and extending betweenand detachably connecting the separable upright supports, and a platesecured to the said forward extensions" and extending upwardly in frontof the detachable rear plate.

3. lln a display rack the combination with two upright supports eachhaving a forward extension atits lower end and each exten sion having aslot extending downwardly from its upper ,edge and also having a slotextending upwardly from its bottom edge and in front of thedownwardly-extending slot, of a spacer bar having spaced-apart slotswhich open at the upper edge said spacer-bar slots and theupwardly-extending front slots in the forward extension down fromsaidyupper edge and at the rear of the edge-concavity,'of an uprightplate having bottom-edge notches which register withand straddle thenotches in said forward extensions of the two upright supports and saidplate extending upwardly from the said extensions and in front of theupright supports; a detachable spacer bar connecting the tworforwardextensions in front of the edge 'concavities and a detachable rearspacer plate-connecting the two supports at the rear of the uprightplate and in a plane above the said extensions.

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